Jon Peters...
Was he really a big douche?
shareDon't let the things you hear in the open, decide.
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He was the King of Douche. He traded up from being a hairdresser to being a movie producer because he was inexplicably fucking Barbra Streisand. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
shareI was a kid when they were dating and remember seeing pics of them together is my mom's magazines, but knew very little about him. I knew her of course, but had no idea who he was. By the time I was older, Babs had dumped his ass and he faded into the background.
shareBy the time I was older, Babs had dumped his ass and he faded into the background.
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...but he parlayed his connections into a partnership with a somewhat less crazy producer named Peter Guber and they formed "Peters-Guber" productions and produced movies like Rain Man and Batman and then were given a studio to run.
Jon Peters got VERY rich.
Sean Penn plays "Jack Holden" and he is meant to be movie star William Holden, but the real Holden was dead so a fake name was used. Jon Peters is still very much alive. He read the script and agreed to a "worse" depiction of himself. In real life, the REAL Gary REALLY delivered a water bed to Peters home and he was reportedly not mean at all to the young workers.
Peters didn't demand changes to the script. He said in real life "I wouldn't be so mean to Gary but I would have hit on Alana." He also asked that his use of peanut butter sandwiches as a come on to women be put in the movie. Its his last line.
None of this is to say that Jon Peters is a great person. What he is today, is old and without much clout or rage anymore.
There were plenty of articles in the time to make the case for Jon Peters as a mean man -- but that's a lot of Hollywood. Think about it -- he went from hairdresser to Babs boyfriend to her producer to "Guber-Peters" to studio head. All on very little natural "artistic" talent. He had business talent.
He was also a sexy guy and a fighter in his youth. Before Streisand he landed the beautiful Lesley Ann Warren as a wife -- and dumped her for Streisand. Always moving UP.
There has been no comment on Licorice Pizza from Streisand. She probably doesn't like the Jon Peters character at once claiming to be Streisand's boyfriend AND getting nothing but other women at the same time.
Peters to Gary: You know how much tail I get?
Gary: How much?
Peters: All of it.
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BTW, if you go look at the trailer for "What's Up Doc?" (1972) on Youtube, you can see the REAL Streisand correcting director Peter Bogdanovich on how to pronounce her name:
Bogdo: Here is my star, Barbra Streizand.
Barbra: StreisSAND.
I'll bet where PTA got that gag. What's funny in the movie is even when Gary gets it right, Peters still tells him he's wrong.
I assume Peters is also meant to be coked up during this scene.
I figured that Jack Holden was meant to be William Holden. Wasn't the woman in the musical number supposed to be Lucille Ball?
shareSadly, he did I not fade far enough. He got producer credits on too many films thereafter.
This guy was a fucking hairstylist. He fucked Barbara Streisand. Tell me that there are not too many Jews in positions of power in the entertainment industry.